Introduction: Inactivated influenza vaccines are traditionally produced in chicken embryonated eggs but its limitations in producing the required doses in pandemic outbreaks quickly enough has made searching for alternative modes of production necessary. The use of cell culture-based vaccine production is one way of overcoming the limitations of the egg-based method and securing a more rapid re...

Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive tumor arising from mesothelial cells of serous membranes, and forms spheroid-like cell aggregates in pleural and peritoneal effusions. We examined the levels of anoikis, apoptosis induced by the detachment of cells from the extracellur matrix, in suspension culture in the human mesothelioma cell line NCI-H2052. NCI-H2052 cells were adherent in conventiona...

We have recently described Arabidopsis cell suspension cultures that can be effectively synchronised. Here, we describe procedures that allow clonal-transformed cell suspension lines to be produced using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, and an optimised and straightforward procedure for the cryopreservation and recovery of both parental and transformed lines. Frozen cultures show 90% viab...

Plant-based expression systems have emerged as a competitive platform in the large-scale production of recombinant proteins. By adding a signal peptide, αAmy3sp, the desired recombinant proteins can be secreted outside transgenic rice cells, making them easy to harvest. In this work, to improve the secretion efficiency of recombinant proteins in rice expression systems, various signal peptides ...

A cell suspension culture of Phaseolus vulgaris cv Negro jamapa was established. Protoplasts isolated from this culture are suitable for transient gene expression studies after DNA transfer by either electroporation or treatment with polyethylene glycol. The optimized conditions for both methods were established, taking into consideration expression and cell viability. We have investigated two ...

The expression of recombinant proteins has increased in importance for both research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing applications. Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell lines are one of the most frequently used cell lines for the expression of recombinant proteins that require posttranslational modification to exhibit full biological function. CHO cells used for large-scale production of recombi...

the characteristics associated with hepatocytes. They have glucose 6-phosphatase activity, secrete serum globulin, and, in confluent monolayers, show tight cell junctions and intercellular canaliculi resembling bile canaliculi. On the other hand, the cells have low levels of inducible tyrosine aminotransferase, no detectable 6-aminolevulinic acid synthetase and aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase acti...

Elicitation effect on the production of asiaticoside and asiatic acid in shoot, callus, cell suspension culture Centella asiaticaM. Laxmi Krishnan, Arpita Roy, Navneeta Bharadvaja

The influence of different parameters upon cell culture of serum-free adapted 293 cells including the surfactant Pluronic F-68, carbon dioxide (5% CO2 atmosphere), buffer HEPES and antibiotic-antimycotic has been explored. A defined serum-free medium (SFM) formulated without human or animal origin components from Invitrogen was used to grow the suspension adapted 293 cells. For all cell culture...

in recent years, great efforts have been devoted to the design of drug delivery systems. many polymeric excipients have been studied in order to make drug release fit the desired profiles. the aim of this work was to design a theophylline oral suspension, as sustained release pharmaceutical preparation in order to decrease the plasma level fluctuations and adverse effects of theophylline. micro...